NRO Declassifies Gambit, Hexagon Satellites
Credit: NRO
For its first 50 years, the National Reconnaissance Office's willingness to embrace risk in solving the complex technical tasks of spying from the safety of orbit earned the agency respect by a string of U.S. presidents faced with managing the Cold War. “The value of the photography alone was worth...
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